Plastic + Oven = Idiot

January 28th, 2010 · 6 Comments

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Yesterday I pre-heated the oven to 400 degrees so I could throw in a frozen pizza. Then my homeboy came over to drop off a movie projector that I was going to buy from him. We went outside for a cigarette and had a nice conversation about boxing with the local crackhead that has a real job. No, not boxing a crackhead, but the topic was about boxing and it was me, the crackhead and my friend talking about it. And yes, a crackhead that has a nice job. It’s crazy cause he dresses pretty suave, but the weathered face and body language just screams crackyheady. When we came back 15 minutes later, we were welcomed with a nice poisonous stench of melting plastic. I forgot to mention that we were inhaling smoke more dangerous than what came out of the cigarette we just smoked. Good times indeed.

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What got cooked in the oven was the plastic casing of the indoor grill that my mom gave me as a present. I remember my mom used to cook so many good meals on this contraption. Luckily the grill still works. The only thing that got damaged was the plastic which melted clean off the grill.

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Fortunately, the melted stuff at the very bottom came right off the metal in one big ‘ol piece. Unfortunately, when the plastic that melted on the racks cooled off, I had to bust out my hammer at 1am to crack off the hardened plastic. Also, since the plastic on the rack melted in an icicle shape, I had to watch out for flying mini daggers every time I broke a piece off. Haha, wow…how do you spell stupid? C-A-L-E-B.

Correct.

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6 responses so far ↓

1 diligent diletante // Jan 28, 2010 at 10:58 pm

One time I was staying with a friend on vacay. I was being a grateful houseguest and decided to cook a nice dinner for him so he could have something nice to eat after work. I didn’t realize he kept his plastic grocery bags in the bottom drawer. Plastiic burnt onto oven, angry friend, almost a big fire. At least you were able to clean yours off…
2 megan // Jan 29, 2010 at 3:06 am

It could be worse. One time I was pulling a dish out of the oven with a dish towel and suddenly went “holy crud, I can’t hold this thing, why is it getting hotter ?!” Turns out the dish towel had touched the bottom of the oven and the fire was working it’s way up the towel to my hand
3 caninecologne // Jan 29, 2010 at 8:06 pm

dude, wtf, huh! at least the house didn’t burn down!
4 Caleb // Jan 29, 2010 at 11:14 pm

DD - Who the heck keeps their bags underneath the oven? I hope he’s not a doctor. If he is, it gives me inspiration.

Megan - haha that’s crazy. I still use a dish towel to take things out of the oven cause I’m too lazy to get an oven mit. Maybe your story is a sign that I should get one.

caninecologne - true. true. cause if the house went down all my valuables would have went with it. Like my pet rock and my 1992 Zenith TV
5 Rosa // Feb 5, 2010 at 6:17 am

Hilarious! I bet it smelled like hell after!

That happens to us all. Once, I forgot my pan mat on the top of the stove and had put on the wrong ceramic device (just the one under the mat, of course). Needless to say that it caught fire and produced an immense quantity of acrid smoke!!! Thankfully, I didn’t have to call the firemen…

Cheers,

Rosa
6 Caleb // Feb 8, 2010 at 5:04 pm

Yes, not only did it smell like hell, but we actually chilled inside the house for a couple minutes until one of us said, “I don’t think it’s healthy for us to be inhaling the smoke”. That was my first time having a plastic hangover. Never again.

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